In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

  • therealjcdentonEnglish
    61·
    9 months ago

    Discord has a monopoly on the organized group chat platform, there isn’t a competent competitor, or at least none I’m aware of

      • poke@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        9 months ago

        I don’t know why so many people in the fediverse consider Element a competitor to Discord. I regularly use Element, but the non-text functionality just isn’t ready to point people at as an alternative. They will have a bad time and write off Element potentially forever if they are shown that app as an alternative right now.

        Some examples of functionality that is important to discord but is not a good experience or is not ready in element yet: voice/video channels, screen sharing, custom emotes and reactions, channel organization and browsing (their latest attempt just doesn’t do it for me).

        Additionally, there are times when encryption just has a hiccup still or someone sets it up wrong and things can be messy because of it.

        I really like element and they’ve done a good job so far, but It’s just not ready for people to be pushed there from discord.